Widow’s sorrow and a quiet betrothal in New York
The story follows Aunt Nancy Howard and widower Uncle McFarlane in a Greenwich street household. Bonsall schemes to push Nancy aside for Regina Schuyler, but the uncle's affection and Nancy’s steadiness steer them toward marriage and a European voyage.
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Adopting a Frugal Life Through Careful Budgeting
The piece argues that a modest income can sustain proper living through strict budgeting and mindful spending. It emphasizes recording all receipts and expenditures, foresight in purchases, and that prudent saving enables independence and generosity rather than sheer stinginess.
Miscellany Reflection on Life’s Murmuring Stream
A brief exhortation urges readers to curb constant complaining and seek steadiness in daily conduct. The prose frames life as a flowing stream, advising restraint and purposeful action over habitual grumbling.
Power of pleasing through divine love in the heart
A devotional passage asserts that pleasing others grows from the will to please and that God is an endless ocean of love. It says even a single drop of divine love fills the heart, illustrating boundless compassion and spiritual power.
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God
Man's self approbation and kindness to animals
A man can live without others' approval yet must strive to keep it when alone. Sydney Smith. The text asserts that people become better by treating animals with kindness, noting that compassion toward animals exercises the higher human faculties.
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Sydney Smith
Aim for perfection in all things quoted by Chesterfield
A maxim urges striving for perfection in most endeavors, noting that persistent effort narrows the gap to excellence, while laziness and despair lead to giving up as impossible. The author cites Chesterfield as the source of the sentiment.
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Chesterfield
Wisdom by Association in Moral Life
A reflection on how companionship shapes character and virtue. The text argues that walking with the wise elevates both intellect and spirit, noting that closeness to learned or virtuous people imparts improvement and fragrance like a rose leaving scent on clay.
What I Have Seen
A reflective excerpt recounts life lessons observed in various figures. It notes misjudgments in marriage money and ambition and contrasts folly with prudent effort. The piece emphasizes candor, truth, and spousal influence as paths through hardship.
De Quincey’s Off Hand Style in Opium-Eater Works
The article contrasts De Quincey’s hurried, offhand method with his later, measured essays. It notes his rapid, careless drafting after drinking laudanum, the litter left on the floor, and how Blackwood later published the collected pages. It concludes readers now consume this hasty scrawling in printed volumes.
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DE Quincey
Thos. de Quincey
Illusions and Faith The Spiritual Life in Conflict
A New York Independent excerpt discusses how Christian life battles worldly illusions by faith in eternal truth. It explains two minds within a person, the lure of worldly desire, and the need for purified spiritual sensibility to enjoy God forever.
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New York
Right to Light Upheld by Delaware Chancery Court
The Court of Chancery in Dover ruled that a neighbor cannot be blocked from light and air by a new building after twenty years of uninterrupted access. Judge Bates based the decision on English common law as adopted since 1776, noting no local statute yet governs ancient lights.
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Wilmington Commercial
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England
Tableau of an Ohio Matron sparks Virginia political rhetoric
The Baltimore American quotes a vivid passage from Tableau of an Ohio Matron urging Virginians to vote. It describes statuary on Richmond Capitol Hill and invokes figures such as Washington and Henry while calling for mobilization from Frederick County to Southampton and urging support for proposals tied to Southern states and national figures.
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An Old Rumor of Berton and the Mount Mansfield Hag
A Vermont tale recounts Berton, a climber at Mount Mansfield, killed when a rock fell near him as a flirtatious old woman, said to be the Aunt to Berton, supposedly causes the rockfall every summer. The wagonmen dismiss the superstition as gossip.
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Bremen Cathedral Houses a Strange Mummy Exhibit
The Bremen cathedral, a 12th century Protestant church with Germanys finest organ, hosts a mummy display. About a dozen bodies lie in coffins in a vault said to prevent decay. a turkey and chickens hang nearby. The display earns roughly twenty dollars daily.
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Bremen
Germany
American Lace and a Credit Crisis Tale
A wealthys wife in France buys an 18 000 lace six yards long while European nobles hesitate. Back home her husband borrows at 30 percent discount as his credit collapses, illustrating extravagance during a national crisis.
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United States
France
Nervous Caller Upends Baggage Car Search
A nervous man enters a baggage car and begins rummaging through belongings. A guard confronts him asking what is missing. The man says he seeks his trunk. The guard jokes that he should have been born an elephant to keep his trunk under his eye, and the nervous man exits.
Alaska Scenery Described as Vast and Monotonous
The passage likens Alaska to a single huge mountain densely forested from base to summit with impenetrable undergrowth. It claims a brutal sameness across landscapes, multiplying the effect a hundredfold to convey the harsh, uniform expanse.
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The Supply of Fish and Restoration Measures
Professor Baird argues the decline of New England food fish results from impassable dams blocking anadromous species. He explains cod and haddock migrate seasonally, with herring affecting hake abundance. Building fishways could restore cod and other sea fishes to former coastal abundance.
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Europe
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Grand Manan
Sobriety Lesson From A Circuit Judge Tale
An English judge uses a pair of old witnesses to teach the bar a moral about sobriety. The first claims eighty seven years and sixty years without tipsy days, while the second, at ninety five, admits not going to bed sober for twenty years. The judge concludes the case.
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Walter Savage Landor
Suort and Pity Sermon On Debt Deterrence
A sermon warns readers to avoid debt at all costs. It uses vivid metaphors of debt as a cruel master and a blighting cloud over life. The speaker urges honest work and frugality rather than borrowing, stressing health, temper, and dignity.
Anecdote of Horace Greeley Tells Tea Time Biscuit Tale
Fanny Fern recalls meeting Horace Greeley at her house. Parton urged stale bread on the table since Greeley supposedly avoided biscuits. He disregarded the warning, snatching biscuits across the table and eating them all. He quips that he does not always practice what he preaches.
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Nancy
Alick
Mrs. Bonsall
Nancy Howard
McFarlane
St. Paul's
Europe
Uncle McFarlane
Horace Greeley
Fanny Fern
New Catholic Church at Somer Set Dedicated
The new Catholic Church at Somer Set was dedicated Sunday by Bishop Hendricken of Providence with Rev. Drs. Edward Murphy M. E. Bruton and J. Kelly of Fall River assisting. The parish is in charge of Father Eric of Bowenville. Several hundred attendees came from Fall River. The church measures 40 by 70 feet and will seat seven hundred.
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Hendricken
Providence
Edward Murphy
M. E. Bruton
J. Kelly
Fall River
Eric
Bowenville
Shipbuilding Surge in Maine's Cherryfield and Belfast Districts
In Cherryfield the past season saw a dozen large vessels launched with others on the stocks and more to be built next season. In Belfast twenty four vessels have been built or are building, totaling 7478.28 tons.
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